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NXP: What It Takes to Enable Securely Connected Self-Driving Cars
With self-driving cars on the horizon, automotive design is one of the big topics at this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Austin. During Monday morning’s keynote, Lars Reger, CTO of the...
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DAC News, Wednesday
The last day of the DAC tradeshow is the best...said nobody ever. After two days in the booth for exhibitors, or two days watching non-stop demos and presentations for attendees, the third day seems...
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Lip-Bu's Fireside Chat with Ed Sperling—With Real Fire
Usually the phrase "fireside chat" is just a figure of speech, but Wednesday's came with a real fire. A spotlight caught fire above Mentor's booth, and the entire conference center was evacuated for...
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Securing the IoT for Billions of Possible Intrusion Points
At the Linley IoT conference a few weeks ago, one of the presentations was by NXP's Donnie Garcia. As in all such presentations, there was some bias towards the best solution being an NXP...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Redesigned Virtuoso Forms
Enhanced User Experience with Redesigned Virtuoso Forms Research and customer feedback has revealed that you feel some Virtuoso forms are quite complex, with too many options displayed on the forms and...
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DAC 2016: Enabling Virtual Reality, Deep Learning, and Self-Driving Cars
For Sameer Halepete, the challenges of staying ahead of Moore’s Law are only making chip design more fun. “In the past, you had ideas to improve power, cost, performance…people would just say, go to...
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An Steegen: Controlling the Semiconductor Funnel
Last week I was in Belgium for imec's international technology forum (ITF). For me one of the high spots is always An Steegan's presentation on what is going on just over the horizon in process...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Vision Systems and Neural Networks
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses using neural networks as part of vision systems. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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Compatibility Is Good, But Compliance Is Better—Certifying for VESA DisplayPort
For all IP providers, the ultimate proof of quality of their product is certification for standard compliance. Exhaustive testing conducted by third-party labs or at compliance workshops assess the...
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Academic Track at CDNLive EMEA
From May 2 to May 4, Cadence once again hosted their hugely popular user conference CDNLive EMEA. The Academic Track, co-ordinated by the Cadence Academic Network, is a platform to share papers about...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Fiber Weave Effect—Zig-Zag Routing? New...
The 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release introduces the interactive conversion of Orthogonal and 45-degree routed traces into a Zig-Zag pattern to minimize the Fiber Weave Effect in a Printed Circuit...
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Visiting KAUST
Cadence Academic Network is a worldwide activity; therefore, the team members are often traveling to quite exotic places on earth to visit universities, talk with the professors, and tell them what...
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Cadence Technology Days at MIET
On 21 April, Cadence and the Moscow Institute for Electronics Technologies (MIET) organized Technology Days in the MIET building in Zelenograd in the vincinity of Moscow. Zelenograd is the heart of the...
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Seamless Verification
At DAC, Cadence had their now traditional verification lunch. Brian Fuller returned in his role as the host and moderator. The panel consisted of: Jim Hogan of Vista Ventures, another Cadence alumnus,...
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Open Source Raspberry Pi Design Files for Allegro and OrCAD Tools
The Raspberry Pi has firmly established itself as a household name by providing a hands-on way to learn programming in a small, simple, and very affordable package. First released just over 4 years ago...
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RISC-V—Instruction Sets Want to Be Free
I had never heard of RISC-V (pronounced five, not vee) until earlier this year when there was a presentation about it at EDPS in Monterey. I immediately texted the daughter of a friend of mine who is a...
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Waveform Thumbnails
Wouldn't it be great if you could see your plots directly on the schematic? Well in ADE Explorer, now you can! Run a simulation in Explorer and open the design in tab and choose Waveforms from the...
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IP Group @ 53rd DAC – Veni Vidi Vici
Another DAC, and this year someone put a jalapeno in my margarita at the Denali Party . The burn came on slow, and was merciless. So we all yelled “Carpe Diem!” The really good news is that there was a...
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99.7% of Transistors Manufactured Are Memory
I was in Brussels a couple of weeks ago to attend imec's annual technology forum. One of the keynotes on the first morning was from Wally Rhines, Mentor's CEO, entitled Extending Semiconductor Cost...
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DAC 2016—Implantable Microsystems: Interfacing Electronics with the Brain
Smart, connected medical implants are potentially among the most worthwhile of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. (Who really needs a smart water fountain for their cat?) The opportunity to improve or...
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